NCJFCJ in the State of Mississippi
MISSISSIPPI
In 2024, the NCJFCJ’s work impacted approximately 4 million families across the nation. Our publications amassed over 94,000 views, the team fulfilled over 150 requests for technical assistance, and trained over 15,000 judges, judicial officers, attorneys, and other juvenile and family-court related professionals across the nation.
The NCJFCJ is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), along with All-Rise, to provide targeted support to Madison, Rankin, and Sunflower Countys’ Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts who have all received Enhancement Grants from OJJDP.
A multidisciplinary court team from Leflore County participated in the NCJFCJ’s National Multidisciplinary Institute on Child Sex Trafficking in August 2024.
With funding support from the NoVo Foundation, the NCJFCJ provided training and technical assistance to the 31st Judicial Circuit Court in Greene County to identify and promote promising practices in juvenile and family courts to address child sex trafficking.
The Hattiesburg Child Abuse and Neglect Mentor Model Court and the Forrest County Court are recognized for their efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children, juvenile offenders, and their families.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Youth Court is recognized for its efforts to improve outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families.
Multidisciplinary campus professionals representing student conduct, law enforcement, and prevention participated in the Office on Violence Against Women’s Campus Training and Technical Assistance Institute (TTI), an opportunity extended to each campus grantee five times over the course of three years. These in-person institutes combined with webinars and intensive, customized support from national experts are designed to help college and university campuses enhance their capacity to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campus.
The state of Mississippi contributes juvenile court data to the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This national project of the NCJFCJ provides detailed and accurate information on the activities of the nation’s juvenile courts to juvenile justice professionals, policy makers, researchers, and the public.
